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Failure: The Blog 
October 2012
- 'Goldeneye' Creators Had Almost No Experience
- Flushing Away an Enormous Problem
- The Little Lie About the Biggest Mountain
- You Should Unfriend 10 People on Facebook
- Inventor of Most Popular Guitar Could Not Play Guitar
- TV Show Star And High School Dropout
September 2012
- In Praise of Mediocrity
- The Failure to Patent a Billion Dollar Formula
- This Bus Stop is a Fake
- [VIDEO] A Hollywood Camera Move Made From Junk
- Productivity Through Self Denial?
- Harvard Business Review: Get Ready to Fail
August 2012
- The Innovative Power of Lying
- [VIDEO] You're Not That Great
- The Failure of a Great Singer
- James Cameron was Homeless
- Something Worse Than Failure
- Jackie Chan and the Plan to Fail
- On Failure and Baseball
July 2012
- Failure on the Radio
- Complaint Calls Can Be Useful
- The Terribly Useful Terrible Movie
- FedEx's Big Gamble (No, Really)
- Positive Fail, Dot Com
- How Boring Attire Wins
June 2012
What’s in a Band Name
One band that’s sold multiple platinum albums and taken home several Grammy awards has an unusual name. They took it from a scathing review early in their career.
The musical pair released one of their first albums on a label called Duophonic. According to the online website Discogs:
“An english journalist from Melody Maker (a weekly UK music mag), who reviewed this record, said it was “a bunch of daft punk”. So they decided to do some other music and Thomas and Guy-Manuel took this name (Daft Punk) as the name of their new group.
Today, Daft Punk is a hugely important band in the electronic music genre. In addition to the two Grammy Awards they won in 2009, they’ve been nominated for six more. But even if you’re not a fan of their work, it’s not difficult to appreciate the humor in the choice of their name. What many would have considered as an insult became the foundation for their future.
Failure is the secret to success. If a music journalist writes a bad review, why not take a few words from the story and reinvent yourself? Explore the possibility that what others think is wrong might just be right for you.
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